"Possible" way to keep game from crashing

[MaverickSimCity 0]

Hey guys,

I was messing around with another game i was playing (battlefield vietnam) when someone in that game was talking about setting the screen resolution. I have a widescreen monitor (1680x1050) so that game was always strecthed for me. I came across someone in the game who said he had set his screen resolution to be a proper fit. So I had the idea of would this work for other games that didn't support widescreen. Game #1 that game to my mind was SimCity. So i looked around online and I found how to set the screen resolution to override the in-game defaults. i have my screen set at 1680x1050, and I was able to get that to work in SimCity perfectly. HOWEVER, what I found was that my game never randomly crashed anymore!!! I've been playing the past couple of days for up to four hours without a single crash! Before I had set the resolution my game would randomly crash anywhere between 5 minutes to an hour of play. So I'm wondering if everyone out there who has this problem is playing on a screen where the in-game resolution does not match the monitor. I figured its worth a shot.....

ok, to set the resolution to a different size, just right click on the short icon for SimCity 4, and in the box for "target", copy and paste this into it:

"C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -CustomResolution:enabled -r1680x1050x32

(note, your actual .exe might be located somewhere else, but the real important part is in bold. change the 1680x1050 (be sure to leave the "r" in front) to whatever resolution will work on your monitor, and the "x32" is the color depth, so that could be either 16 or 32 depending on the monitor.)

please, let me know if this helps anybody! we might be on to something here!

[omgitsacamera 0]

I am trying this now and although the menus look squished, the textures are sharper, but take longer to load. I will see about the crash problem..

[MaverickSimCity 0]

ahhh, forget it......... it was working for me for awhile, i've been playing days without a crash (averaging 3hrs/day) and then finally today it randomly crashed on me. not a good way to start the year